Month: September 2021

How TikTok’s auto-generation tools helped popularize subtitles in the app, as creators compete for the estimated 75% of users who leave their phones on mute (Brian Contreras/Los Angeles Times)

Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times: How TikTok’s auto-generation tools helped popularize subtitles in the app, as creators compete for the estimated 75% of users who leave their phones on mute  —  TikTok creator Alyssa McKay has perfected a persona people love to hate: a Regina George-esque rich girl whose bouncy raps are packed …

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A Toy Jeep For After The Apocalypse

When your friends are off to the post-apocalyptic Wasteland Festival and present you with a defunct Power Wheels clone toy Jeep to make ready for the festivities, what are you to do? If you happen to be [Victor Frost], soup it up with new electrics and uprated steering, and send it forth into the hideous

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A viral TikTok video from July caused many young women to use Prolific, a survey website for scientists, skewing the demographic data for thousands of studies (Rafi Letzter/The Verge)

Rafi Letzter / The Verge: A viral TikTok video from July caused many young women to use Prolific, a survey website for scientists, skewing the demographic data for thousands of studies  —  Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager.

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Stairwell, which scans companies’ data to detect if they are compromised or were in the past, raises $20M Series A led by Sequoia and Accel (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Stairwell, which scans companies’ data to detect if they are compromised or were in the past, raises $20M Series A led by Sequoia and Accel  —  Back when Stairwell emerged from stealth in 2020, the startup was shrouded in secrecy.  Now with $20 million in Series A funding …

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Analysis: with 26 exits so far, 2021 could be Kleiner Perkins’ best year for number of exits in at least a decade (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: Analysis: with 26 exits so far, 2021 could be Kleiner Perkins’ best year for number of exits in at least a decade  —  Kleiner Perkins is one of the most storied venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, making early investments in companies like Genentech, Amazon and Google …

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What’s new in Angular 13

Angular 13, a planned upgrade to Google’s popular TypeScript-based web framework, continues to take shape, with eight beta releases published as of September 24, impacting areas such as the router, core, and service workers. Code for these can be found on GitHub. Among the key changes since the second beta, the router no longer replaces

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Financial software maker Clearwater Analytics closed up 41% at $25.37 per share in its debut, giving it a market cap of $5.9B, after raising $540M in its IPO (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Financial software maker Clearwater Analytics closed up 41% at $25.37 per share in its debut, giving it a market cap of $5.9B, after raising $540M in its IPO  —  – Software firm’s backers include Welsh Carson, Permira, Warburg  — CEO says IPO was to raise Idaho firm’s profile more than cash

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Production crew union says Apple claimed less than 20M TV+ subscribers in the US and Canada as of July 1, allowing Apple to pay workers lower rates (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Production crew union says Apple claimed less than 20M TV+ subscribers in the US and Canada as of July 1, allowing Apple to pay workers lower rates  —  – A showbiz union representing behind-the-scenes workers says Apple claimed less than 20 million Apple TV+ subscriptions in the U.S. and Canada as

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Modern Tube Tester Uses Arduino

There was a time when people like us might own a tube tester and even if you didn’t, you probably knew which drug store had a tube testing machine you could use for free. We aren’t sure that’s a testament to capitalistic ingenuity or an inditement of tube reliability — maybe both. As [Usagi] has

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Documents show Clearview AI subpoenaed internal docs and correspondence from advocacy groups and civil society coalitions that first exposed its activities (Alexandra S. Levine/Politico)

Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: Documents show Clearview AI subpoenaed internal docs and correspondence from advocacy groups and civil society coalitions that first exposed its activities  —  Advocacy groups argue the company is trying to bully critics.  —  A man taking a selfie is silhouetted against the overcast sky along …

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